Improved elastic tip tor legs op chairs



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sILAs VAN PTTEN, or ALBANY., NEW YORK.-

Lette/rs Patent No. 102,627, dated May 3, 18.70.

To all whom Ait may concern:

Beit known that I, SILAs VAN PATTEN, of Albany, county of Albany and State` of New York, have invented a new and Improved Elastic Tip for Chairs; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the saule, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification.

Figure l represents a side view of my improved tip, showing it secured in the leg of a chair.

Figure 2 is a plan or top View of the same.

Figure 3 is a side view of the rubber from which the plug is made.

Figures 4 and 5 are side views of the rubber-bars prepared.

Figure 6 is a side view of the plug.

Similar letters ot' reference indicate. corresponding parts.

This invention relates to a new elastic attachment to the ends of chair-legs, which has for itsv object to v deaden the noise of removing the chair, and to pro-A tect the floor or carpet upon whch the same may he placed.

The invention consists in -the use of arubber plug,

, of peculiar construction, inserted in a socket which is for-med in a chair-leg, the plug having ahead that ts against the end of -such leg, all as hereinafter more fully described.

'lhe invention also consists oi' a novel'lnanner of constructing the said plugs'from cylindrical pieces ot' vulcanized India rubber.

A in the drawing represents the improved tip or plug madeof rubber of suitable size.'

I make it from a cylindrical piece, (l, of rubber, in the following manner:

The rubber is stretched by having tension applied to its ends; until its diameter is reduced to the size of the mortise in the chair-leg. x

While the rubber is thus stretched, cords or strings, a a, are wound tightly around it in sections of suit- -able length, there being portions b of the rubber left between the cords, which are not thus surrounded, as shown in fig. 4. When the entire length of rubber has been thus properly tied, the tension is allowed to cease.

The non-covered portions b b will then, as they contract, resumel the original size of the cylinder C, while the tied portions, being unable to expand, will remain compressed, as shown in iig. 5.

The rubber thus prepared is now cut into small pieces A A, each piece consisting of one covered part and a non-covered portion, b, as shown in Vig.,6. The covered part constitutes the shank. the other the head ofthe plug. The shank is inserted in the. mortise of the chair-leg, the head abutting against the end of the leg, as shown in fig; l. lVhen the plug has been applied, a line knife is forced into the mortise to cut the string c, whereby the shank will he liberated to expand, and to thereby be lirmly retained in the leg.

The head ofthe plug forms an elastic support for the chair, and protects the leg as well as `the surface upon which the same is placed.

Having thus described my invention,

I claim as' new and desire to secure by Letters -Patent- 1. Securing an elastic plug in the leg of a chair by winding a cord around the shank-portion of said plug, and after inserting it cutting the cord to allow its eX pansion, substantially as described.

2. The herein-described method of preparing rubber plugs for chairs, 85e., by stretching cylindrical pieces of rubber, and tying cord around alternate sec tions of' the same, as set fort-h.

- SILAS VAN PATTEN.

Vifitnesses':`A

A. V. BmEsEN, G-Eo. W. MABEE. 

